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Goodbye summer for you and goodbye holidays for me. The mood dipping and soaring, or soaring and dipping. I am back in Madrid in a house that has been closed for 2 months, so you can imagine all the housecleaning and organizing that await me. And then back to work, which I am looking forward to.That is a beautiful photo of the swallows. Coming back through the Alentejo we found all the stork nests empty, they are already gone to North Africa.

Beautifully evocative poem, Friko. I enlarged the photo, and the swallow on the precipice looks scared to death! It just takes one step--a good lesson for us all. I wonder if your swallows migrate to Capistrano? No, that would be too far. the Canary Islands? xx

Swallows are still here in the east, but they're beginning to gather on the wires in larger groups. Hope they stay around a bit longer - there are plenty of insects for them to feast on.(And I still haven't been able to get a good photo of one flying!)

Our swallows disappeared when I blinked one day last week. The dragonflies have left as well. So many lovely summer afternoons were spent on a lounge in the garden while watching the swallows and blue dragonflies swoop and whirl after the mosquitoes. Magical afternoons.

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I was born and educated in Germany but I have lived in the UK for decades.
Before I started blogging, I had time for gardening, writing, reading, meeting friends, for poetry and literature, concerts and the theatre. I enjoyed cooking and feeding others.
Now, I do all these things if blogging permits.